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Bucephalus

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Bucephalus (bysĕ`fələs), favorite horse of Alexander the Great. There are legends of his speed and the wondrous deeds that Alexander performed while riding him. He died in 326 B.C. after the battle on the Hydaspes River. The city Bucephala was founded there by Alexander in his honor.
Bucephalus
wild steed, broken by Alexander to be his mount. [Gk. Hist.: Leach, 167]
See : Horse


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He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum pellis et ossa fuit," surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Intact, my dear friend; besides the harness of your Bucephalus and mine.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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